Music-holder



B. GUY. MUSIC HDLDER.

(No Model.)

No. 411,987. Patented Oct. 1, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

BURDETT GUY, OF ONEONTA, NElV YORK.

MUSIC-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,987, dated October 1, 1889.

V Application filed November 30, 1888. Serial No, 292,184. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BURDETT GUY, of Oneonta, in the county of Otsego and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Music-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a neat, simple, and eificient device which can be readily and conveniently attached to the music-racks of pianos, organs, and other musical instruments for the purpose of holding the leaves of book-music from turning or becoming displaced while in use and which will allow of adjustment to any position desired by the player.

hile the invention has certain features in common with other holders and structures of different kinds, including music-holders ap plied to music-racks-such as a screw-threaded post, with fic nges and nut as means of attachment and as forming a standard for carrying the leaf-holdin g finger-it essentiallydiiiers in several important respects, and in its entirety constitutes a new device for the purpose for which it is designed, the same including a longitudinally-adjustable inclined leaf-holding rod fitted to pass through a rotatable or swiveling head on top of the post, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a piano-forte in part with m yimproved music-holder applied to the rack thereof, and to a music-book or piece of sheet-music upon said rack; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the rack in part with the music-holder, also shown partly in section, secure-d thereto.

A indicates the screw-threaded post of the music-holder, provided with flanges l) b, pref erably fitted loosely upon it, and with a thumbnut c, for the purpose of securing the whole device to the music-rack B through a suitable hole or opening in the fretwork thereof. Upon the top end of the post is fitted a swiveliug or rotatable head (I, which bears at its I suitable length, fitted to slide longitudinally through an eye or hole f in the swiveling head all in an oblique direction relatively to the 1011- gitudinal axis of the post, in order that said rod will hear at its one end with the neces-- sary pressure upon the leaves S of the music, to hold them firmly down, as shown in Fig. l. The end of the rod which thus rests upon the music is provided with a button-shaped projection g, to prevent the leaves from slipping, also to raise the rod 0 slightly from the paper. The opposite end of said rod may be provided with a ball or other suitably-shaped projection 7L, that may not only answer as an ornament, but which serves the purpose of and forms a stop to prevent the rod from sliding out of the head d.

Jhe angular longitudinally-adjustable rod 0 is preferably circular, so that it will be free to turn in the eye f of the swiveling head d.

A music-holder constructed as described admits of an enlarged range of adjustment, is easily attached to the musicrack, is both simple and ornamental, and one only of such holders is needed for a piece of open music on the rack.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A leaf -holder comprising a relatively stationary clamping-bolt, a transversely-apertured head turning on the outer end of the said bolt, and a sliding rod passed through said aperture, substantially as set forth.

2. In a music-holder, the combination, with a post, of a swiveling head thereon having an eye oblique to the axis of the post, and alongitudinally-sliding rod fitted to pass through said eye and adapted to bear at its dipping end down upon the music, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of the screw-threaded post A, having an upper collar 6, the flanges opposite end, in combination with the swivb b, the nut 0,'the swiveling head d, having an eling head d, having an eye f oblique to the 10 eye f oblique to the axis of the post, and the axis of the post, through which said rod is longitudinally-sliding rod O, essentially as guided and free to move, as set forth.

5 shown and described. BURDETT GUY.

4. In a music-holder substantially as speci- WVitnesses: fied, the rod 0, having a button-shaped no A. H. TIPPLE, jeotion g on its one end and a stop h at its L. F. COOK. 

